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The Scene
For fans of punk, alt rock, and artists you won’t see on other festival lineups, Riot Fest should be on your bucket list. Started as a showcase festival in Chicago in 2005, Riot Fest has transformed into a multi-day outdoor festival and has spawned editions in Toronto and Denver. The original in Chicago’s Humbolt Park remains the best and most solid lineup of the bunch.
Festival Poster
2021 Artist Lineup
Best Coast
Big Freedia
Coheed and Cambria
Dinosaur Jr.
Faith No More
Fucked Up
Gogol Bordello
Run The Jewels
Sublime with Rome
The Smashing Pumpkins
- Morrisey
- Slip Knot
- Alex G
- Anti-Flag
- Bayside
- Beach Bunny
- Beach Goons
- Best Coast
- Big Freedia
- Boston Manor
- Chubby and the Gang
- Circa Survive
- Circle Jerks
- Coheed and Cambria
- DEVO
- Dinosaur Jr.
- Dirty Heads
- Don Broco
- Faith No More
- FEVER 333
- Fishbone
- Fucked Up
- Gogol Bordello
- Gogol Bordello
- Hepcat
- Holy Fawn
- Jawbox
- Joywave
- Just Friends
- K.Flay
- KennyHoopla
- L7
- Les Savy Fav
- Living Colour
- Lupe Fiasco
- Mayday Parade
- Mayday Parade
- Meet Me @ the Altar
- Meg Myers
- Motiona City Soundtrack
- Mr. Bungle
- New Found Glory
- NoFx
- PUP
- Radkey
- Radkey
- Run The Jewels
- Saves the Day
- Simple Plan
- Simple Plan
- Sublime with Rome
- SWMRS
- Taking Back Sunday
- The All-American Rejects
- The Ghost Inside
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- The Sounds
- Thrice
- Thursday
- Toots and the Maytals
- Vic Mensa
- White Lung